BIB_ID
120320
Accession number
MA 517
Creator
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
Display Date
1863 May 26-1868 Feb. 4.
Description
1 item (23 p.) ; 30.3 cm
Notes
Dated 1863 Sept. on p. 8; 1864 Apr. 10 on p. 10; 1865 Jul. 30 on p. 18; 1863 May 26 on p. 16; 1865 Sept. 22 on p. 22; 1865 Dec. and 1866 Jan. 24 on p. 23; 1868 Feb. 4 on p. 23a; and 1866 Apr. 29 on p. 24.
Pages numbered 2-3, 8-12, 14-23, 23 a-d, 24, and one unnumbered leaf.
Signed "W.W." on p. 3.
These leaves were evidently removed by Whitman from his private diary and pasted on sheets of paper as copy for the printer.
Written in brown ink and pencil with numerous corrections, some in red ink.
Written on various sizes and types of paper.
Formerly bound in green morocco; now disbound.
Pages numbered 2-3, 8-12, 14-23, 23 a-d, 24, and one unnumbered leaf.
Signed "W.W." on p. 3.
These leaves were evidently removed by Whitman from his private diary and pasted on sheets of paper as copy for the printer.
Written in brown ink and pencil with numerous corrections, some in red ink.
Written on various sizes and types of paper.
Formerly bound in green morocco; now disbound.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from G.D. Smith, 1906 Nov. 20, for $250.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (39 cm)
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